New Delhi, June 23 -- The Union government has shelved the scheme to incubate eight new cities, as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission (FC), according to senior government officials. A senior official at the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA), on condition of anonymity, said that Rs.8,000 crore allotted for the scheme will now be subsumed under another a new scheme to upgrade infrastructure in smaller cities. A second official said that the new scheme may be designed based on ongoing deliberations between the ministry, NITI Aayog, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for infrastructure upgrades in cities with a population of up to 100,000, as per the 2011 Census. The decision to defer the greenfield cities plan came ...